Dimarzio's HS series??

[Peter Anagnostos]

One last question re: pus in a 60s reissue Strat:

Any opinions on the HS1 and HS2, with the one in the bridge(??) and the
2s in the neck and middle?? Are they good at eliminating hummmmmm

[Carl Fiadino]

The HS-1 has slightly less output than the HS-2, you probably
wouldn't want it in the bridge position.
Carl

[John D. Thornburg]

Peter Anagnostos <pet...@en.com> wrote:

>One last question re: pus in a 60s reissue Strat:

>Any opinions on the HS1 and HS2, with the one in the bridge(??) and the
>2s in the neck and middle?? Are they good at eliminating hummmmmm

Have not personally tried them, but aren't they stacked humbuckers? If
they are, they should be very quite. Malmsteen (spelling?) uses
HS-3's in his strat, but his version has the traditional staggered
pole pieces instead of the flat ones.

I have not played them, so I can't tell you how closely they sound to
a real single coil.

JT

John Thornburg ban...@su1.in.net

[Kevin Blaes]

Yngwie now uses the YJM model pickups its the hybrid HS-3 with
traditional FENDER VINTAGE staggered pole pieces.

[Greg Jones]

Yes, the HS series pickups are stacked humbuckers.

Question: Does a stacked humbucker sound like a humbucker or a
single-coil?

[LA]

HS-3's are very close to single-coil sound, but slightly warmer. They
do not even come close to a double- coil sound. HS-2's are bright,
usually suggested as a middle pickup. In my oppinion, HS-3's are a
great sounding pickup.
ljef...@neo.lrun.com

[Ton]

Peter Anagnostos wrote:
>
> One last question re: pus in a 60s reissue Strat:
>
> Any opinions on the HS1 and HS2, with the one in the bridge(??) and the
> 2s in the neck and middle?? Are they good at eliminating hummmmmm

Hi,
I use the HS-3 stacked humbuckers in my strat (neck and bridge).
They are (all HS series) very good hum eliminators and you still have a
good vintage single coil like strat sound.

regards,

--
Ton Schuwer
RF Coil Development, Magnetic Resonance Hardware |
Philips Medical Systems Netherlands |
tel: +31-40-2763248 fax: +31-40-2763771 |

[Morg]

> Peter Anagnostos <pet...@en.com> wrote:
> Any opinions on the HS1 and HS2, with the one in the bridge(??) and the
> 2s in the neck and middle?? Are they good at eliminating hummmmmm

I just bought a YJM pickup (the "yngwie" model of the HS-3 with staggered
pole pieces). Anyway, I was kinda scared buying it because my experiences
with DiMarzio pickups in the past have not been that great...BUT....this
pickup
_is_ great. Really smooth & warm sounding--they are NOT high output as the
attached "yngwie" name would lead you to believe. They do get his tone
though,
you just have to put em through mondo distortion. They don't sound like a
humbucker, but they do have less bite than standard single-coils and maybe
a "little" feel of a humbucker.

I tried the pickup both in the neck and in the bridge. Sounded equally
good in
either position...and _no_ hum whatsoever. I'm waiting for my second one
to come
in.

Unless you use the middle pickup by itself, you don't need to put an HS-3
there
to eliminate hum. With the combo positions on the strat, you can wire one
of the
coils of the HS-3 to the middle pickup, out-of-phase, and get the hum
canceling effect.

There are other pickups out there too...like Duncan Antiquity single coils
or Lindy Fralins (don't know if Fralin makes a stacked version though).

-morg

[Ton]

Hi,
I also have two HS-3 pickups in my strat.
Sounds great through my Marshall JMP 50W (model 1976).
The extra distortion you're talkin' about, what experiments have you
done?
Or do you know how Yngwie gets this amount of distortion?
Does he use a pedal?

[Fred Amendola]

In article <5c0rjp$m...@mailgate.lexis-nexis.com>,
ujo...@pclprod.meaddata.com says...

Question: Does a stacked humbucker sound like a humbucker or a
>single-coil?
>

They sound like a single-coil, but the stack produces hum-cancelling.